Marsha Holland — a candidate unaffiliated with any party who is challenging controversial GOP San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman for a Utah House seat — says wording on state ballots suggests that independent candidates like her are unfit for office.
So she is suing to change it — not this year, but in the future.
A two-year-old law requires an asterisk on unaffiliated candidates’ names that flags to this statement: “This candidate is not affiliated with, or does not qualify to be listed on the ballot as affiliated with, a political party.